Hayley Atwell Would Love A Peggy Carter Movie

While promoting her new mini-series Howards End at the Television Critics Association press tour, Hayley Atwell talked to IGN about whether she’d like or not to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

She expressed:

“I’d love to see [Peggy] more in films(…) I’d love to see her in her own film. And if we can keep evolving it so that she does new things so that I can surprise myself and she can keep surprising me then I’d love to do it.”

She also talked about the impact Peggy had on fans:

“And I feel very privileged to be part of something that people really love and that entertains them. But also, you’re going to these conventions and meeting people who’ve named their son Carter and people who have a tattoo of “I Know My Value,” the tagline. She’s a force of good and there are a lot of social media sites where girls and guys have come together and become good friends on an international scale because of their belief in some of the values that Peggy talks about. And that provides them with a different connection that a family situation or school situation that they don’t really feel they have a place in. That’s really cool to me. So I’m very happy to be a part of that world and keep that going.”

Marvel’s Agent Carter was canceled by ABC after only 2 seasons, which was also something that was brought up at the interview:

“(…)It was a network political thing. They wanted to put me in something mainstream [Conviction] to get their ratings up rather than something that was more genre specific. There were a lot of economic decisions behind it and I wasn’t a part of the conversation. So we were all really surprised about that because we kind of got the sense that people were liking it. It had this cult following. So I know there’ve been online campaigns for it and the fact that we know that she lives until the age of 96 means that technically I could be employed for the rest of my life, you know.”

Source: IGN 

Cecilia López Closs